MADRID — Over the weekend, more than 2,100 people died in Spain as a result of the coronavirus, yet here we are, allowing ourselves to feel hopeful. The neighbors looked weary Monday evening but clapped and cheered enthusiastically from their Madrid balconies. The weekend’s tally — tabulating the lives lost between midmorning Friday and midmorning […]
HBO’s John Oliver, in his latest “Last Week Tonight” episode over the weekend, blasted the awkward relationship between President Donald Trump and One America News as contributing to the dangerous dumbing-down of America during the coronavirus pandemic. “The kind of misinformation OAN’s spewing right now could end up getting people killed, and sadly their message […]
This article is part of a series tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on major businesses, and will be updated. It was originally published on April 6. The COVID-19 pandemic is sending users to Facebook Inc.’s social-networking, messaging and live-streaming platforms in record numbers, but that does not automatically mean more money for Facebook. […]
This article is part of a series tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on major businesses, and will be updated. It was originally published on April 6. For Apple Inc., the most valuable U.S. company, COVID-19 creates questions about supply and demand. On the supply side, some factories in Apple’s AAPL, +8.72% Asian supply […]
Messages of support and well wishes for a speedy recovery have been pouring in from across the political divide as well as from political leaders around the world after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care late Monday as his coronavirus symptoms “worsened.” Johnson, 55, had been admitted to a hospital in […]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Monday evening overruled a decision by the state’s governor to postpone their primary election from this week to June, putting the Tuesday election back on just hours after the the governor had tried to push it back. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday morning issued an executive order to postpone state elections scheduled […]
WASHINGTON — Peter Navarro has a Harvard degree, and he isn’t shy about letting it be known. “You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much,” Navarro joked after President Trump introduced him last week as director of supply-chain issues related to the coronavirus pandemic. Always fond of mentioning a person’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Catholic church in Washington, D.C., that sought to place religious-themed ads on public buses. The justices are leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that found no fault with the Washington transit agency policy that banned all issue-oriented advertisements on the […]
Oil futures headed lower Sunday evening in electronic trade after a key meeting between oil giants Saudi Arabia and Russia was tentatively shifted to Thursday instead of Monday, amid rising tensions between the world’s biggest oil producers over the weekend. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, including Russia, will convene later […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Amid a nationwide shortage of protective equipment for health-care workers treating coronavirus patients, Apple Inc. has donated more than 20 million face masks worldwide and has started manufacturing 1 million face shields a week, Chief Executive Tim Cook said Sunday.